Is the type of troops you can build divided in tiers like in Heroes of Might & Magic V where you must buy every creaturedwelling or like Company of Heroes where one building gives access to some troops and another building another set of troops (Weapons Support Center = MG42, Mortars and Snipers | Tank Depot = M10 Tank Destroyer, Sherman Crocodile and Sherman M4) ?

Cause to an outsider like me it's a riddle how Hinnom can have giants already (maybe their the weakest type?).

I read a thread on the Dom III site where one guy asked if his starting things were good and with all those abbreviations it was like reading latin.

Another thread was about one guy asked how to find "sites" and how many there were....Dom III seems alot more complex than Age of Wonders and Elemental.

You could always record your gameplay in FRAPS. On that thought I'll go look for some of that on Youtube.

@Campaigner

You have access to all of your recruitable, troops from the outset but some are not necessarily a good investment from turn one because of their cost.  This is especially true of commanders, because you can only hire one per turn, and some are absurdly expensive.

Take Abysia, for example.  Our "worst" unit is, relative to everyone else, very strong infantry - with a variety of equipment - each of which costs 20 gold and about 27 resources to hire.  We also have some better units which cost about 60 gold and 40 resources to hire.  Now, on the first turn you only have 400 gold to spend, plus - and this really matters for Abysia - only about 80 resources.  So I can hire two of my best troops, or I can hire three of my slightly worse, but cheaper ones, and can then either pay for a better commander type right away, or save up to try to buy our best commander type (costs 440 gold) in turn two.

So even in the home province, where everything is unlocked from the outset, there's a lot of potential variety in strategy and approach.  For example, as I mentioned above, even though they cost the same Abysia has 4 different infantry types: flail without shield, axe without shield, axe with shield, and axe with morningstar.  Each of those is subtly different from each other, and each has their potential uses.

The real variety, however, comes from two places: independent provinces and summoning spells.  Many of the best units in the game are only available through summoning rituals that can only be cast after a lot of research and by appropriately high-level mages.  Sometimes, however, the most powerful of those spells might lie down different research paths, so you have to decide ahead of time which one you're going to target.  Or, more commonly, a really good summoning spell will lie down one path, but a really good enchantment of some other kind will lie down another path.

Again, with Abysia as an example, "Contact Scorpion Man" - a spell unique to Abysia - lies at Conjuration level 8 (close to the end of the path), but the stuff that lies further up in the conjuration path isn't nearly as useful as, for example, some of the spells midway up the Enchantment and Evocation paths.  So what do you, as Abysia, do?

Similarly, while most nations have better troops than are available in independent provinces, each province you capture gives you the chance to hire troops from it that differ from your own.  As Abysia, I have no archers, so if I want to hire some, I need to hire them from independent provinces.  Many nations lack mages of proficient in certain magic types, so independent provinces are sometimes the only way for them to gain access to that magic.  Finally, almost every land-based nation in the game has a hard time getting into water provinces without either 1) powerful magic or 2) conquering provinces that have amphibious troops available for hire.

There's a none-too-short answer to your question.  Probably any video you sought out gave you the same answers, but, hey, differentiated instruction and stuff...  Some people prefer to read.

intel on Hinnom as of turn 10

current info:

Prov 82 Hinnom (current) 40 troops, mostly "damn guards,"  and 3 huge chariots, leader is "Hanan'el spawn of Azazal - who radiates power"

Prov 97 Hinnom Hor Castle, temple of liars: Site of first public post of Hinnom that stated that "Lilith attacked me"
Prov 88 hinnom,
Prov 89 hinnom,
Prov78 Hinnom (current)  1 candle, growth +1, luck +3, magic +1, border mountains, farms.
Prov 61 Hinnom (current) 1 Hor shaman, pop o2810, 21 coins, resources 95, border mountains, waste.
Prov 79 "Wynna" Hinnom (current) TEMPLE of lies #2, 10 Avrice swords"men" (term used VERY loosely); 1 son of Korabel, x 
 leader is "malthus," (may his namesake's spirit fill all hinnom provinces!) PD 21+
Prove 82 (current) pop 1832, 4 coins, resources 25, border mountain.
Province 95 Hinnom, (current), order 1, production 2, heat 1, growth 1, luck 1, magic 1.

I'm having the same issue.  I'll check back later tonight, see where it's at, today's tabletop game day at the local store.  Gotta get my world-crushing domination on the old-fashioned way. 

My turn is in.. but no reply, "everything is fine" message.....

War?   What is a  "war?"   haven't experienced being able to do a war, yet... never had enough resources to even consider a war.    

But some intel,,, that i am able to do..... and I hope it helps the truly deserving ....

I have noticed the usually garrulous Lord Xia is particularly quiet in this thread. I wonder what sort of plans Tien Ch'i is forming in secret places.

One thing I like about playing this game MP instead of SP is how long it takes to play. Seriously. If I play SP, I am rushing through each of my turns like an ADHD kid on a sugar rush, never stopping to really think about what's going on in the game. With MP, I have a lot of time in which I am forced to think about how to go about achieving my goals, and, for that matter, actually think about what my goals should be. I also really like the diplomacy aspect, though I find it's getting a bit difficult to keep track of what I've discussed with everyone. No fault of Stardock, whose messaging system was surely not designed to allow Dominions 3 players to MP, but I kind of wish there was a better way to do this... maybe I'll give those I am in contact with my actual email address so we can discuss game stuff there.

The official forums also work pretty well. You get an email notification when you receive a PM, and you can subscribe to threads to be emailed when they are updated.

I also appreciate the slower pace. It really helps to plan a turn, and makes you less likely to forget about your scouts out patrolling and other little details.

I definitely understand RL getting in the way at times.

Yeah, this is definitely a game that can absorb a lot of your mental processing during the day. Planning the next turn, planning the overall strategy. Modifying those future plans as circumstances change. Studying your nations details. Studying the strengths and weaknesses of your enemies. Diplomatic discussions. It all gets very intense. I have not made it past turn 20 in a game yet, so I am looking forward to seeing what that is like.

Hinnom!  Today we feast on your blood!

Ah, sad to say that it seems Yomi has left this world. Elana, it was a pleasure playing with you, to the extent that I could, and I hope you will not be discouraged at playing this game again. I would encourage you to give it another chance, at the very least.